I never abused the report system. That was the mod of News abusing the rule, I only ever reported stuff hurled at me which never ever got removed even when it was very obvious personal attacks or other people doing exactly what I had a comment removed for.

Can you link to some examples of people abusing you? You don’t have to spend a ton of time on it if you don’t want to. I’m just curious.

Moderation is never completely fair. It can’t be. I’m just saying that by some coincidence, the moderators that interacted with you are some of the only ones who I tend to agree with a lot of the time.

And I 100% will admit that I’ve called for the removal of Israel. I don’t view that as the negative FlyingSquid does.

It’s not just FlyingSquid. I think calling for “removing” Moscow, or Washington, or Israel, or Gaza, or Ukraine, for whatever reasons of geopolitical argument, would lead to your removal from most communities outside of the instances that tend to get defederated.

You can hold whatever views you want, but surely breaking the community rules on purpose by speaking about them, and then getting banned, isn’t a confusing outcome.

I moderate differently than I comment. Moderation for me is only about removing spam etc or obvious bad actors, people voting are what determines what’s visible not what I’ve decided should be allowed.

Maybe so. It could work fine. Definitely having you be a member of the community instead of someone coming from above, and open about what you’re doing and why, is a step in the right direction. I’m just saying that moderation is hard and thankless work that is going to bring you into contact with a lot of obnoxious people, and refraining from becoming obnoxious or unfair yourself, as you deal with that day in and day out, is a lot more difficult than it seems like it would be.